Ask HN: Devs who knows how to scale will have the last laugh in future dev?

2 pointszameermfm10d ago4 comments

Isn't it really obvious at this point in software engineering world, however the dev trend goes, AI replacing engineers or AI coexist with minimal engineers or automation slowly swallows bottom up in the dev hierarchy,

the engineers who knows servers, networking, scaling (Load, DB), distributed computing, hardware level competencies, Ops, Extensive Infra knowledge will have the ultimate last laugh in all this?

Like, it will be the last remaining frontier where battles will slowly cease to exist?

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rvz10d ago

> ...the engineers who knows servers, networking, scaling (Load, DB), distributed computing, hardware level competencies, Ops, Extensive Infra knowledge will have the ultimate last laugh in all this?

Yes. Everything needs to be constantly maintained and you need to fix any outage as it happens immediately.

Let's just say do not be anywhere near where the vibe coders are having the most fun which is anything front-end.

zameermfmOP9d ago

Yes, front end is indeed in the automation territory. Artisanal works aside, common patterns usually serves peoples needs, so vibe coded front end will in fact work.

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